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"This book investigates the theme of global transitions with a cross-regional comparative study of two areas experiencing change over the past three decades: Southeast Asia and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Political transitions in Asia have been the subject of interest in academic and policy-making communities recently as there are encouraging signs of democratization in countries that exhibit elements of authoritarianism. In those countries with relatively open political systems, transitions to democracy have been complete - albeit messy, flawed, and highly contested. In contrast, countries of the MENA region that have been gripped by revolts in recent years find themselves in the midst of chaotic and uncontrollable transitions. Why are there such differences between these regions? What, if anything, can be learned and applied from the transitions in Southeast Asia? These questions are answered here as Asia's experience is contrasted with the Arab revolts and the struggle of the different countries in the MENA region to fashion a new social contract between states and citizens."

"Globalization has accelerated the process of social, political, cultural, and especially economic transformations since the 1990s. In recent decades, this has cast doubt over the validity and reliability of many working assumptions about the nature and logic of progress in modern societies, at all levels of social structure and complexity. In The Challenge of Progress, editor Harry F. Dahms and a series of contributors explore how this doubt has been magnified, looking at how the institutions and constellations between business, labor and government have begun to weaken. The essays included in this volume examine the foundations, nature and contradictions of progress in the modern era. Anchored by - but not exclusively focused on - a debate of Amy Allen's recent book, The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (2016), the eleven essays identify, analyse and confront the challenges of progress, looking across social class, philosophy, history and culture in their analyses. For researchers and students across social theory, this is an unmissable volume confronting the present and future of our societies. Examining the choices of modern society, Dahms and contributors ask: what are the social costs of "progress"?"

"Democracy urgently needs re-imagining if it is to address the dangers and opportunities posed by current global realities, argues leading political thinker John Keane. He offers an imaginative, radically new interpretation of the twenty-first-century fate of democracy. The book shows why the current literature on democracy is failing to make sense of many intellectual puzzles and new political trends. It probes a wide range of themes, from the growth of cross-border institutions and capitalist market failures to the greening of democracy, the dignity of children and the anti-democratic effects of everyday fear, violence and bigotry. Keane develops the idea of 'monitory democracy' to show why periodic free and fair elections are losing their democratic centrality; and why the ongoing struggles by citizens and their representatives, in a multiplicity of global settings, to humble the high and mighty and deal with the dangers of arbitrary power, force us to rethink what we mean by democracy and why it remains a universal ideal."

"Islam memiliki posisi yang begitu penting dalam sejarah Indonesia. Sebagai agama mayoritas, banyak Muslim memiliki otoritas sebagai intelektual yang memberikan penafsiran terhadap pemahaman Islam dalam perkembangan masyarakat Indonesia. Salah satu dari mereka adalah Ahmad Syafii Maarif. Ia adalah satu dari tokoh-tokoh Islam yang menghidupkan optimisme Muslim Indonesia mengenai isu demokratik. Melalui analisa sosiologi politik dan kerangka berpikir sosiologi pengetahuan, penelitian ini melihat bagaimana proses terbentuknya pemikiran Ahmad Syafii Maarif sebagai hasil dari respon terhadap berbagai konteks historis. Minangkabau dan Muhammadiyah adalah titik awal yang menjadi sebuah pintu masuk kedalam dinamika pemikiran Ahmad Syafii Maarif dan perkembangannya. Dari Muslim yang tertutup, Maarif menjadi Muslim yang pluralis. Selanjutnya, pemikiran Ahmad Syafii Maarif banyak membahas mengenai titik temu Islam dan Demokrasi di Indonesia. Hal tersebut sebagai sebuah manifestasi dari gagasan neomodernisme yang diwariskan melalui gurunya, Fazlur Rahman. Pemikirannya mengenai Al-Quran adalah sebuah dasar gerakan menuju masyarakat toleran dan demokratis. ......Islam has an important position in Indonesia's history. As a majority religion, many Islamic actors have the authority, as intellectual, in giving the interpretation to the Islamic understanding in the growth of Indonesian society. One of them is Ahmad Syafii Maarif. He is one of Islamic figures that turn out the Indonesian Muslim optimism about democratic issue. Through political sociology analysis and sociology of knowledge framework, this research views how the formation process of Ahmad Syafii Maarif's Islamic thought as the result of respond to various historical contexts. Minangkabau and Muhammadiyah are the starting point to entrance to the dynamics of Ahmad Syafii Maarif's thought and its growth. From conservative Muslim, Maarif becomes pluralist?s Muslim. The thought of Ahmad Syafii Maarif examines the convergence point between Islam and democracy in Indonesia. It is a manifestation of neomodernism idea inherited from his teacher, Fazlur Rahman. His thought about Koran is the foundation of movement to democratic and tolerant society."